Sometime on Jan 20, Dinesh Joshi assembled some asciibets to say:
My Samsung SP1213C ( 120GB ) SATA disk has crashed. Its making horrible clicking sounds. The disk is not reading much. Though GRUB does come up and the kernel does start booting up but it finally panics after not being able to find initrd ( Yes, I use Fedora Core 2 :P ). I had some important family pictures and stuff in there.
You may also find this useful: http://bluesmoon.blogspot.com/2004/11/home-is-ntfs.html
then again, it might not.
If you succeed, document the procedure.